this is extreme athletes at red bull at it again. here he goes, colombian cliff diver back flipping, 75 feet above the hudson river, with the statue of liberty looking on. the red bull cliff diving series starting this weekend. "the lead" with jake tapper starts now. >> i'm jake tapper and this is "the lead." the world lead. remember how a courier unwittingly lead seal team 6 to bin laden's front door? seems another al qaeda currier had another major slipup recently. though it's not as if they can use fedex, can they? >> and back on the job after being forced to go on leave in the aftermath of benghazi attacks. now they're back. what does it actually take to lose a job at the state department? apparently dropping the ball ahead of a terrorist attack is

not enough. >> and the money lead. sure one in five mortgages are still under water but at least we learned our lesson from the 2008 market meltdown. didn't we? president obama doesn't seem to think so. in fact, he seems concerned it could happen again. >> good afternoon, everyone. i'm jake tapper. welco welcome to "the lead." >> terrifying moments today when shots forced frightened kids outside the classroom and anxious parents racing to the scene. david mattingly joins us live with the latest. david, what is the story? >> reporter: jake, you might be able to hear a big cheer going up in the parking lot of this shopping center away from the school. this is the staging area where the children are now being brought to be reunited with

their parents. it's been a very tense couple of hours, parents very upset, even though they know from authorities everyone is okay. finally the school buses are arriving. can you see them behind me. we're going to push in here to get a closer look for you. those buses are coming directly from the school to reunite the children now with their parents. what authorities are telling us isn't much right now, other than there was a single male shooter on campus there at the school. we don't know his identity, we don't know his motive. police aren't ready to tell us yet what kind of weapon he had, how many he had or how many times he fired. but we have been told here that he gave up to police without any kind of incident. now, as this was going on, many children were taken out of the school to safety, to a playground. others were sheltering in place and that's where they stayed even after the man gave himself up and turned himself in to police. as police were able to go through the school, be very meticulous to make sure there was nothing else on that property that might do those

children harm. they're now apparently satisfied with that. the children on the buses. again, another cheer going up in the distance here. it's going to take some time for these about 870 kids that go to this school to actually be reunited with their parents because they have to make sure that the child now is going back to the proper adult. so this isn't over for anybody but can you bet a great deal of relief here from the parents that are assembled. >> david mattingly from decatur, georgia, thank you so much. the world lead is potentially a treasure trove of information from al qaeda. u.s. and yemeni authorities have obtained a reporting between more than 20 al qaeda leaders from around the globe in what one intelligence is calling the legion of doom meeting. the recordings were pulled off a captured al qaeda courier. josh rogan, senior correspondent for "the daily beast" broke this story. explain to me the significance of this recording.

>> we all wondered why the embassies were shuttered a few weeks ago. finally we were able to report on exactly what happened. the significance of the recording were that more than 20 al qaeda representatives from all over the world had a seven-hour internet video teleconference, whatever you want to call it, where they discuss a bunch of issue including this eminent yet vague threat on u.s. interests that prompted the worldwide terror alert. >> what exactly are we talking about? is it audio? is it video? is it written? what precisely is this conference call? >> think it haves is a secure -- some people participated by video -- >> sivits is a secure individual conference? >> exactly. it's an internet-based environment that al qaeda set up. some were through internet chat, some on audio, some video. people could plug in however they wanted. people came in and out over the course of the seven-hour

conference, including the leader, al zawahiri, they had the big roles and messages here and everyone else chimed in when they wanted to. >> how did they hunt this courier down? >> the conference itself was actually secure. then they took the conference and gave it to this courier who was then disseminating it to less secure places to others around the al qaeda community. when this courier decided to seasoned this out to other people, that's when he made a mistake in his operational securities that u.s. intelligence officials seized upon. they caught him sending this to other people, they found him, they picked him up, the yemenies picked him up, he had this whole video in his pocket, along with a treasure trove of information that officials have been poring over ever since. >> a courier is how they were able to find bin laden ultimately. will this recording itself prove even more significant than what we know came from it, including all the embassy closures, the warnings about an attack?

>> our information is that there's a lot of information about the recordings it tells you about their thinking, it was announced a promotion, the imminent or vague threat that may or may not have passed is only one small portion of this and has given officials a lot to take over. it will take weeks or months to sort out. >> you're going to be on erin burnett "outfront" talking about this. >> coming up next, they were placed on leave by hillary clinton. now they have their jobs back. does that mean nobody will be held accountable for mix takes made at benghazi? and later -- we'll take a little time to honor the man behind

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what's your policy? with egypt collapsing into itself. one official said yesterday the u.s. was withholding some aid. then a pentagon spokesperson said he wasn't aware of any assistance. now the white house is saying that any reports of aid being cut off are not true. it's exhausting. a spokesperson said today the administration is still reviewing its next steps. meanwhile, the situation in egypt continues to unravel. more than 900 people were killed over the past week in violent clashes stemming from the ouster of former president mohamed morsi. on tuesday egyptian security forces arrested a key leader

from the muslim brotherhood and accused him of inciting violence. >> in other word news, parents as of today, it's official the obama administration is holding no one responsible for what happened before the deadly attacks on the u.s. compound in benghazi, libya. last fall it was only a matter of days before evidence started appearing indicating that state department officials paid insufficient attention to officials asking for additional security. and at that time hillary clinton put four administrative officials on administrative leave but as of today those four have been back to wourk. secretary of state john kerry decided the four do not deserve any disciplinary action and an official tells me there was no breach of duty and they are not

returning to their previous positions. what's notable is that those decisions to not provide additional security personnel and assets in libya, that's one of the only parts of the benghazi scandal that obama officials will acknowledge was a real actual problem. can you go back and forth on talking points from the white house and whether u.s. military assets were in position to rescue the americans being attract but the continual denies throughout 2011 and 2012 of additional security for ambassador chris stevens and the others there in libya, that part of the benz controversy no one with any real knowledge or purr expectative on the tragedy can refute. how bad was it? recall the testimony of the former regional security officer in libya, eric nordstrom, who left his post less than two months before the attack. he described for congress just how state department officials continually shot down his requests for additional security. >> you know what makes it most

frustrating about this assignment? it's not the hardships, it's not the gun fire, it's not the threats. it's dealing and fighting against the people, programs and personnel who are supposed to be supporting me. and i added it by saying for me the taliban is on the inside of the building. >> you heard that correctly, regional security officer from libya, the former one, describing state department officials as the taliban. he noted security was grossly inadequate and it was established that no one had been proven to have been breached his or her duty p. i want to get some reaction from congressman from utah, jason

chaffetz. do you think these four people should have lost their jobs? >> somebody has to be held accountable. june 6th we had a second bombing. nothing was done after this. five days after that second bombing at our benghazi facility, a three-car convoy from the brits was attacked, an assassination attempt on the ambassador and nothing was done. this happened less than two kilometers from our benghazi facility. after those three event, there is not a single thing that was done to protect or fortify that facility, nor did secretary clinton do anything to give them more personnel. then we had the terrorist attack on september 11th. >> should anyone be fired as a result of what happened at benghazi? the state department says there was no breach of duty and that this is more about learning lessons than punishing people. what are your thoughts? >> well, look, hillary clinton was in charge of the state department for four years. this terrorist attack happened and they set up an

accountability review board, which i believe was five members. within 60 days they found 29 systemic problems and challenges within the state department. now, how is it that they could go in in 60 days and find 29 systemic problems where secretary hillary clinton couldn't find it in four years? she accepted all 29 of those but not a single person was held accountable. nobody was fired, they went on this paid leave but they get their full salary. nothing changed. >> i know that charlene lamm, one of the state department officials in question, has said that cutting funding for the state department security measures was not part of what happened in benghazi. but going forward, where are we as a government, as a congress and the white house on moving forward and having more funding for security at embassies? has any of those attempts at legislation gone forward? >> well, over the last five years the state department as a

whole has had nearly a 100% increase in their operating budget. >> but specifically for the security budget. has there been any advances there? >> well, you have an administration where president obama is out there saying al qaeda's on the run but your whole program has been about al qaeda so far. so out loud you're saying al qaeda's on the run and the terrorists are nonexistent yet we're closing 19 embassies because of these conference calls. we have a terrorist attack in benghazi. you got to take this seriously and understand that america is under attack and you've got to take this pro actively and make some hard decisions that maybe aren't as politically correct but would create the safety and environment we need in those embassies and consulates around the world. >> before i let you go, congressman, on the subject of egypt, what's your understanding in terms of whether or not the u.s. has suspended or cut off aid to egypt? what's your understanding? >> i have no idea.

to reach into american people's pockets and take their money and say we're going to give it to the egyptians given the chaos that's going on there, that is not something that i can support. i see no coherent policy, nor have i, from the obama administration, from secretary clinton, i don't see it from secretary kerrey. what is our strategy? what has it been since the fall and the changes there in egypt? i just don't see it. i don't understand it. i'd love for somebody to try to explain it. >> i would as well. thank you, congressman jason chaffetz, republican of utah. >> it could be a sign military leaders are no longer untouchable. musharraf is now charged. benazir bhutto was killed at a rally, she was an opposition leader and known as a democratic reformer.

musharraf's administration said it was the taliban. but it was ruled later that musharraf's administration had not done enough to protect her. >> coming up, it was one of the deadliest days in the war in afghanistan. command are ty carter risked his own life time and again to save his fellow soldiers. tonight watch "an unlikely hero" tomorrow night, 10:00 eastern only on cnn. >> coming up, the economy has come a long way since 2008. so why is president obama still worried about it tanking again? plus, the 1972 dolphins wanted to take a victory lap in washington, too, except president nixon was not so accommodating. ♪

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welcome back to "the lead" it's time for our money lead. and an urgent warning from president obama from the need to prevent another potential economic meltdown. he called the top sheriffs in the room and told them to get off their tuchesses. you remember it was suddenly on the taxpayers to bail out the too big to fail banks. president obama sailed a bailout and in the three years since,

very few changes have come out of it. i want to bring in our cnn global economic analyst and our old friend, economic policy correspondence for "the washington post." ranna, how real is the possibility of another financial downturn like we saw in 2008? >> i'm not worried about a leman brothers style blow up at this point but there is a bigger problem, this slow burn that banks are making record profits, they're back on top but lend isn't where it should be. it's from trading, the risky maneuvers we saw pre-2008, not from lending to businesses, lending to small businesses is down in the last couple of years. that disconnect, the real economy and finance needs to be fixed. i this i that's what the president is getting at here.

>> and when the president talks about he brings these sheriffs in here, all these regulators and says according to the dodd-frank bill, you have to write all these regulations, you're not writing them fast enough, what specifically is he most worried about? what does he really want addressed? >> i think the president is concerned of about an asset bubble. >> what is an asset bubble? explain for us. >> the housing bubble was an asset bubble where home prices got way overvalued compared to what we called the fundamentals, what they should be based on historical experience. that's what happened right before the crash and that appropriate ta precipitated the financial crisis. >> we don't have that now? >> we don't have a housing bubbleout. homes are probably still undervalued. >> what does this man for homeowners? should they be worried about the value of their investment? >> i think we're going to see home prices continue to tick up but a little more slowly there

and in the past. the real problem is if you want to buy a house these days, credit is still tight. for average people, credit is as tight as it's been in the last five years. a lot of the recovery in housing is being driven by investors and people who can afford to put cash down. but again, you've got to get those banks lending. in order for that to happen, you need to have those dodd-frank financial regulations written. only about a third of those have been written so far. >> jim, when president obama calls these people into the oval office and says you need to get working and start writing these regulations the bill called for, what specifically is taking them so long? what's the problem? >> i think there's two problems. one is it's a really complicated bill. it's one of the two longest bills i think in the history of u.s. legislation for a non-appropriations bill. but secondly, these regulations are heavily lobbied and you have a lot of people who want to weigh in with all these

comments, who want to tell the regulators how they should be writing these to favor one industry or another and i think that is absolutely slowing down the finalization of these regulations. >> absolutely. i'll jump in and say about 90% of the consultation with legislators doing the rule writing has been taken by the big banks. they are really controlling that process and they would like to see it go their way. >> all right, thank you so much for helping us understand this complicated, complicated problem. let's see what our political panel is up to in the green room. michael, you're the washington bureau chief for "time" magazine. i wonder if you'd be willing to give me your honest, unvarnished opinion of the president's new pooch sunny. >> we don't know if he's renounced his portuguese citizenship. >> and bo and sunny, frolicking

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welcome back to "the lead." time for the sports lead. the 1972 miami dolphins finally getting the moment they've been denied for 40 years. but a few of them said thanks but no thanks. the politics lead, he once invited the naacp to kiss him and i don't mean on the lips. now maine's republican governor is at the center of another racial controversy over something he allegedly said about president obama. and the pop culture lead. if you haven't read his books, you've probably seen a movie or tv show based on one "get shorty," "out of sight." the world just will not be the same without author elmore leonard. welcome back to "the lead." i'm jake tapper.

time for the sports lead. for years they've watched pro teams, college teams, even little league teams get their day at the white house. today at least the undefeated 1972 miami dolphins got to take one last road trip together. this is what perfection looks like. meet the 1972 miami dolphins. today, 41 years after they accomplished perfection, the only undefeated super bowl winning team in history finally had their day at the white house. >> some of them a little harder to recognize these days. you know, they don't have the afros or the mutton chops, the fu man chus. >> some refused to go.

>> but many of them have remarkably remained a team, bonded by history. >> each and every time that record has been challenged, they've fallen short but this team did not always get the credit they deserved. >> this trip might not have happened, if had hadn't been for marv trying to get some love for his team. >> i talked to congress people, mayors, governors, everybody who was involved with the white house. >> his battle cry, why not us? it's a good question. why not the '72 dolphins? in case you haven't heard, they're kind of a big deal. the team coached by the legendary don shula capped a 17-0 season with a win over the washington redskins in super xii. it -- vii. it's a feat no one has accomplished since. they break out a champagne toast

when the team loses their first game each season. so why weren't they honored after running the table in '72? well, for one, president nexton was jowls deep in the watergate scandal. but then there was no tradition of always inviting winning teams to the white house. legend has it that nixon, a redskins plan, even called a key play for the red skins in '71. there's a tape of nixon and allen talking football. >> you were 13 points behind, you know, and when your offense just wouldn't do a thing, you know, i -- i thought you were dead. >> but today the present white house made good, settling a 40-year-old grudge, giving the perfect team a chance to finally be america's team. >> congratulations to the miami dolphins.

[ applause ] >> and let's bring in right now one of the most famous players from the undefeated 1972 dolphins, hall of famer and fullback larry zonka. it is an honor. >> it's good to be here. >> we're used to seeing teams coming to the white house all the time to celebrate with the president. you guys are kind of a big deal. is this an important event to you? >> i think so. it's any reason we have after some 40, 41 years to get together is always appreciated. the fact that we were called to the white house made it even more special. >> what's a bigger deal, being inducted in the hall of fame or this? which one is bigger? >> that's a tough comparison. within the confines of the game, certainly the hall of fame is bigger. as far as the public is concerned and the following of the team and notoriety of the team, certainly going to the white house is bigger in that

respect. >> some of your former teammates decided not to attend today because they really don't like president obama's policies and politics. what's your take on that? >> well, that's a political issue. some of the fellas, this is a country where you have your freedom of speech, freedom to express your politics, freedom to do what you want to do. i think that's exemplified by the fact that some of the team decided not to come. that's the political side of it. on other note, on the team side of it, the reason to get together was great live appreciated by myself and the other fellas here and we got a hoot being asked to come to the white house and talk to the president of the united states. >> there's been a lot of talk about why president nixon didn't invite you. he was a huge redskins fan. he had coach allen to the white house two weeks before the super bowl. what's your take on why nixon didn't have you guys come? >> i think president nixon must have had his own reasons. i don't know what they were. but i think that also was a time before it was really a regular

thing to bring the super bowl champions to the white house. so while in some respect it is may seem we were neglected, i don't necessarily feel that way. i think it was even neater to be 40 or 41 years later, a unique situation that was even more unique after 40, 41 years. then coming to the white house to celebrate with the president right now. >> and one of my favorite things about the '72 dolphins, you have a champagne toast when the last undefeated team loses. you came close a couple years ago. before the patriots lost the super bowl, they were undefeated. do you think you will ever see another undefeated team? >> i hope not. i hope not to see another undefeated team but certainly if it happens, you have to recognize the fact. in '85 it was the bears. a few years ago it was the new england patriots. seems like there's always someone knocking at the door trying to climb the mountain. but right now we're still alone

sitting on the peak. >> of course in '85 the bears would have been undefeated if it weren't for a certain team -- >> coach shula brought that up to the president when he was talking about being a bears fan and how they only missed by one game and shula asked the president what team was that that beat the bears that year? >> it was of course the miami dolphins. larry csonka, thank you very much for your time. congratulations 41 years later. >> thank you, jake. >> remember when kanye west said george bush doesn't care about black people? has he found the equivalent in maine? and we'll tell you where housing are being sold for $1. [ male announcer ] these days, a small business can save by sharing. like carpools... polly wants to know if we can pick her up. yeah, we can make room. yeah. [ male announcer ] ...office space. yes, we're loving this communal seating. it's great. [ male announcer ] the best thing to share? a data plan.

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welcome back to "the lead." in just two short years in office, maine's governor has managed to compare the irs to the murderous gestapo, he told the naacp to kiss his tush, shall i say and now he's dodging reports of hating white people. today lepage denied the story. >> no, i never said that and you guys are all about gossip. >> let's bring in today's political panel, senior writer

phillip klein. phillip, i don't know if he said this or not. he's denying it. there are two unnamed lawmakers. i don't know who they are. but this does illustrate a problem that there are attempts to reach out beyond the political base and then it ends in headlines that the media devours. >> this is based on anonymous reports of people who have gone on the record, including other people who were there say he didn't say it so we don't know. but i think that the important thing is that any effort that republicans are going to make for outreach are going to have to come not from the top down but from candidates. and i think that they're going to have to, you know, make their own outreach efforts and try to connect with minorities. i think one thing that's interesting that hasn't really been explored that much is if you look at exit polls over the

past few decades, while democrats have always done better among minorities, obama exceeded the traditional democratic model. i think one thing that's questionable, when obama is no longer on the ballots, are democrats still going to get in the high 90s in terms of the black vote? >> plus the turnout. >> plus the turnout. or is it going to return to more typical democrat being models, dominant but not quite as super sized as what we saw with obama. >> michael, let's talk a touch about governor lepage. the reason the story has gotten some legs is because it's not the first time he's said something or he's accused of saying it. he denies it. it wouldn't be the first time he said something fair live crazy. this is his explanation of the danger of bpas in plastic bottles. >> the only thing i've heard is if you take a plastic bottle and put it in the microwave, it gives off a chemical similar to

estrogen. and so, i mean, worst case is some women might have a little beard. >> it's science. it's science, michael. >> my favorite lepage quote, which you haven't used and i won't repeat in detail, he talks about one of his opponents not using vaseline when he approaches the voters. >> approaches the voters for an unnatural act. or natural. >> we know pretty well now that politicians who have sound bites like that can actually promote themselves pretty well because we all cover it. there have been a lot of people in congress, michele bachmann, others, who know how to deliver -- >> is he a liability, though? he's starting to get a lot more attention. >> i think he is. a few months ago jeb bush went up for a fund-raiser and he got a lot of flak, jeb bush, who could be a 2016 candidate was raising money for paul lepage who talks hitler when he talks

obama. when you're comparing anybody who hasn't killed millions of people to hitler, you're generally losing. >> the governor's spokesman is pointing to devon raymond, the young man he took into his home from jamaica, who he refers to his son. >> we've seen this too many times with politicians that when it comes to president obama, some racist thing comes out and they try to deny it and change the subject and then reince priebus goes to the republican convention and says, oh, we're actually going to make an extra special effort this year to reach out to blacks. i think that, you know, the problem that republicans have, yes, they've got a couple of racist governors -- >> couple? >> well, at least one. >> you're just spotting them a racist governor. >> i'm adding another one. >> to be named later. >> to be named later.

but really what they have is they have a numbers problem. they're not going to continue to win presidential campaigns if they don't reach out more, if they don't have a broader constituency. and but they almost talk about it in a kind of a sort of political inhuman way. and i think that that turns blacks and hispanics off. they don't really talk about issues, wants and likes. >> there are more hispanic -- marco rubio. >> george bush got 45% of latino votes, you know, this year mitt romney got in the low 20s or something like that. so it can happen and i think phil's right that it's about the individual politician but, you know, boy, this party stuff colors everything. >> phillip, i want to give you the last word here. people say -- conservatives

complain that the media only covers when republicans say crazy things, when republicans say racist things and ignores when democrats do the same thing. do you agree with that? >> i think there is a definite disproportionate amount of coverage in terms of focuses and trying to distort everything republicans say. typically also the way it happens is that if one republican says something, typically the media approaches every other republican and say do you condemn this remark? and it sort of blows up into a bigger story that then everyone has to comment on. and i think that that's what it is. it's part of the effort to try -- any individual, you know, when todd akin made his ridiculous comments -- >> senate candidate in missouri -- >> everybody had to come out and comment on todd akin. >> it's not really necessarily about the personal slurs. it's because the policies

they're espousing connect with denigrating minorities. and i think that's why republicans get it more. >> that's quite a statement -- >> no, it isn't. whether it's stopping -- >> we have to end it here. we're out of time i'm sorry to say because that certainly deserves a rebuttal from philip. we'll have you guys on again soon to talk about some of these issues. thank you so much for coming here. coming up, if it sounded like writing, he wrote it again. we'll be saying good-bye to the master of dead pan dialogue, elmore leonard. and sure, it's supposed to help save the planet but we'll tell you how this electric car could save your life. stay with us. r the little mishal use neosporin to help you heal. it kills germs so you heal four days faster. neosporin. use with band-aid brand bandages.

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it's time for the pop culture lead. to borrow the final line from "get sorthorty," "endings, man, they're harder than they look." elmore leonard died this morning. but readers will still be quoting his tough guy dialogue for years to come. be stingy with the exclamation points and never use any word other than "said" to describe people saying. the kinds of characters we know elmore leonard for never followed many rules at all. they were so compelling, they easily jumped to the screen. >> i got to shoot you you don't tell me what i want to know. where's my money?

>> from "get shorty" to "be cool," leonard understood criminals. >> you lost your mind? >> as he told "the daily show" in 2002, his rules writing sins -- >> i write a book to entertain myself. if i open a book anywhere and i start to smile, i know it works. >> he wrote gritty, violent stories for pure and simple joy, a theme reflected throughout his life. >> you know that i have my fun being those people. >> and the crooks, scumbags, stoners and schemers that were fun for the author often made for some of hollywood's most memorable misfits. think of the tangled relationship between george clooney's thief and jennifer lopez's u.s. marshall in the spectacular "out of sight." >> put the gun down. >> i'm not going back. >> that's why you came here, to kill me. >> i didn't come here to kill

you. >> it's okay. >> or quentin tarantino's "jackie brown." or the underappreciated "310 to yuma." >> when i'm researching a character or a particular role, a bail bondsman or a cop, i never model my character after someone i meet. i make up my own. >> leonard's idea flowed so freely from his pen, he began many of his 45 novels by writing them long form. yes, for over half a century, the author stayed true to his low-tech technique, purchasing up to a thousand unlined legal pads each year for his fictional work, something he found much more enjoyable than scripting for the movie history. >> the whole idea of writing fiction full time is you're on your own and you can write whatever you want. but then as soon as you become a

screenwriter, you're writing on assignment, even if it's an original. >> leonard brought his story telling style to television in 2010 with the fx series "justified," that earned the network record ratings last season. he famously once wrote "if it sounds like writing, i rewrite it." but we all know as long as it sounds like elmore leonard writing, we'll never forget it. >> overall he wrote 45 novels and was working on 46 when he died. >> and coming up, did a cell phone company accidentally give away the most shiny details? new purina one true instinct has 30. active dogs crave nutrient-dense food. so we made purina one true instinct. learn more at purinaone.com

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